Aching & Fatigue

The book, Aching & Fatigue is about non specific illnesses and two common
patterns of illness, the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia. Some
patients say " I feel sick all over". These are overlapping symptom complexes
and are often part of a larger illness complex. The general classification is
non-specific hypersensitivity disease.

Dr. Gislason explains why diet revision as the first and most essential form
of therapy.
Long term management of food intake is required to sustain improvements. The
book, Aching & Fatigue describes these common problems and their solution,
providing case history examples.

There is a growing population of patients who are not well but who do not
have the markers of specific disease. Patients with in-between disease have some
of the symptoms and signs that suggest the diagnosis of specific disease but not
everything fits together. In primary medical practice non-specific and
in-between disease are more common than the nicely packaged diseases described
in textbooks. A patient may suffer fatigue and joint pains, for example, but not
show rheumatoid factor or have X-Ray signs of rheumatoid arthritis; she feels
like a second-class citizen since she does not have a definitive diagnosis.
Physicians have been tempted in the past to dismiss these patients as
hypochondriacs, attribute their symptoms to "stress" or try to include them in
diagnoses such as depression. Some MDs still believe in psychosomatic illness
and will frustrate suffering patients who get no help from them.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia and related disorders are not
discrete diseases in the usual sense, but patterns of maladaptive responses to
food and the environment. We believe that chronic fatigue syndrome and
fibromyalgia are symptom complexes and are often caused by delayed pattern food
allergy. Both conditions tend to co-exist and both are part of a larger illness
complex. The general classification is non-specific hypersensitivity disease.
Chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia and should be treated with diet revision as the
first and most essential form of therapy. Long-term and precise management of
food intake is required to sustain improvements.

CFS is characterized by persistent and debilitating fatigue and additional
symptoms such as sore throat, headache, tender muscles, aching, stiffness, joint
pains, difficulty concentrating, thinking and loss of short-term memory. Fatigue
and aching are often associated so that the diagnoses of CFS and Fibromyalgia
overlap - both descriptions point to similar clusters of symptoms.

Occasionally, one symptom will dominate. Some people remain energetic
but are stopped by pain, for example and are diagnosed as ‘fibromyalgia”; others
are disabled by fatigue but have no pain. Most people we see have both symptoms
and the diagnosis of Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue can be made together.

The symptoms of chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia are mostly likely produced
by the combined action of many chemicals in food and released by immune cells
that are activated by food proteins that act as triggers to immune cells. Immune
cell chemicals are referred to as cytokines and are potent. A few micrograms of
a cytokine circulating in the blood can feel awful - "it feels like a truck ran
over me." Attempts to change the chemistry of the brain with prescription drugs,
herbs, magnets, acupuncture, vitamins, minerals, green goop and a host of other
odd concoctions are generally futile and may make matters worse.

Chronic sufferers are understandably interested in claims for cures in a
bottle and no-one can be faulted for trying a few prescriptions or a few bottles
of snake oil, but most insightful and experienced sufferers realize that most
treatments were a waste of time and money. Failed treatments are discouraging
and some make the disease worse.

The book, Aching and Fatigue is intended to be used with the Alpha Nutrition
Program Manual. The program is modular and versatile and can be adapted to a
variety of disease conditions where diet and nutrition play a role. The book
provides background knowledge helpful in understanding aching and fatigue, the
association with delayed pattern food allergy and the relevance of diet
revision.

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